Tag-fastener



(No Model.)

- G. M. RICHARDSON.

TAG FASTENER. No. 415,979.- Patented Nov. 26,1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

CHARLES M. RICHARDSON, OF MORRIS, CONNECTICUT.

TAG-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,979, dated November 26, 1889.

Application filed March 18, 1889. Serial No. 303,655- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. RICHARD- sON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Morris, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Merchandiselags; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to so improve the construct-ion of this class of devices that while they may be prod need at very much less expense than has heretofore been possible, the operation, in use shall be greatly improved, that they may be readily attached to any textile or analogous material, and will be perfectly secure when once attached, and all sharp points and projecting ends, which have been found such a serious objection to certain classes of tags now in use, shall be avoided.

\Vith these ends in view I have devised the novel tag of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, numbers being used to denote the several parts.

Figure 1 represents my novel merchandisetag complete, the point of the hook being turned aside ready for attachment. Fig. 2 represents the tag in the attached position; and Figs. 3 and 4 are edge views of the plate in positions corresponding, respectively, with Figs. 1 and 2.

1 denotes the tag proper, which is ordinarily made of light paper-board, and is provided with a hole 2.

4 denotes the attaching-plate, which is preferably struck out from sheet metal, and is provided with a string-hole 5, an elongated opening 6, and a cut 7, leading from the inner edge of said opening obliquely outward to the edge of the plate, thereby constituting a hook 8 of the metal surrounding the outer end of opening 6, the point of said hook be ing sharp, so that when turned aside, as in Figs. 1 and 3, it may be readily passed into any textile or felted article, and which when turned back to its normal position, as in Figs. 2 and 4, is wholly guarded, so as to leave no points or projections that can possibly lacerate the hand or catch upon any other article in handling.

9 denotes a fragment of a piece of textile material in which the hook is caught.

The operation is simply to bend the hook slightly to one side, as in Fig. 3, catch it into the article to be marked, as in Fig. 2, and then spring the hook back to its normal position, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. The tag and the plate are connected by means of a string 3, which is passed through hole 2 in the tag and hole 5 in the plate, the ends of said string being secured together by a knot 10. In manufacturing, the blanking out of the plate, the threading of the string through the holes in the tag and the plate, and the tying of the knot are all performed automatically.

The practical advantage had in view in devising this tag has been to produce an article of this class adapted to all of the general uses to which they are applied, and which should combine the numerous advantages of a string tag with those of a hook tag without the objectionable features inseparable from all hook tags that have heretofore been produced.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A tag-fastener consisting of athin flexible metallic plate having a string-hole at one end and at the other end an elongated open.- ing, with a cut leading obliquely therefrom to the edge to form a pointed penetratinghook adapted to be sprung sidewise in at taching position and then sprung back, so that the point of the hook is guarded.

2. The combination, with a tag having a string-hole, of a thin plate of flexible sheet metal having also a string-hole at one end and an opening at the other end, with a cut leading obliquely from said opening to the edge of the plate to form a pointed penetrating-hook, and a string looped through said string-holes and knotted together, and thus joining the said tag and plate.

In testimony whereof I aftix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES M. RICHARDSON.

\Vitnesses:

WM. L. RANSOM, LESTER R. DENEYAR. 

